Associate of Applied Science in Colorado Plateau Studies: Business

The Associate of Applied Science in Colorado Plateau Studies degree is designed to be a pre-professional program. This is an inter-disciplinary degree that includes courses from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences in its core. The degree is not only inter-disciplinary in its curriculum but may also be adapted to give students an emphasis in one of three academic areas: Arts and Culture, Science, and Business. Students interested in meeting the requirements forone of the emphasis areas should see their advisor for details. 


Program Goals:        

·To give students an inter-disciplinary overview of the people, arts and ecology of the Colorado Plateau

·Professional and occupational preparation and workforce development

·New levels of qualified, educated personnel in the regional workplace

·To give students the opportunity for collaboration with public and private entities, organizations, and agencies (i.e., The Museum of Northern Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Grand Canyon Trust, National Park Service, Grand Canyon River Outfitters Association, local artists) and scientists, United States Geological Survey, etc.

Program Requirements

Minimum credit hours required: 65

General Education Requirements 25 credit hours
 

Prefix/Number/Title

Credit Hours

1. Composition

ENG 101 College Composition I

3
 

ENG 102 College Composition II                   

3
     

2. Mathematics

MAT 151 College Algebraor a higher course

3
     

3. Arts/Humanities

ART103 Native American Art of the Southwest

3
 

ENG 238 Literature of the Southwest  

3
     

 4. Social/Behavioral

ANT 230 Peoples of the Southwest

3
 

HIS 238 Navajo History

3
     

5. Science

BIO 109 Natural History of the Southwest

4

     
     
Degree Requirements 40 credit hours
 

ACC 101 Principles of Financial Accounting

3
 

ACC 102 Principles of Managerial Accounting

3
 

BUS 214 Legal, Ethical & Regulatory Issues in Business

3
 

ECN 204 Macroeconomic Principles

3
 

ECN 205 Microeconomic Principles

3
 

BUS  204   Business Communications

3
     
 

CPS 100 Overview of the Colorado Plateau

3
 

SOC 142 Race and Ethnic Relations

3
 

ANT 230 People’s of the Southwest

3
 

ENG 220 Writers on the Colorado Plateau

3
 

ART 221 Art History of the Southwest

3
 

GLG 232 Geology of the Colorado Plateau

4
 

CPS 290  Capstone Seminar

3